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Hi, I’m Vanessa and welcome to my site.
In 2015, I won Bloody Scotland’s Pitch Perfect event and my first novel, Death Will Find Me, was published in February, 2019. The second Tessa Kilpatrick book will be out early next year and in the meantime, I’ll soon be launching a series of art crime thrillers.
You can find out more about me and what I’m up to by following the links at the top, and there are contact details below if you want to ask me any questions or invite me to talk at your bookshop, library or festival.
Author Archives: vanessa
Blogger interview – Jane Badger of Books, Mud and Compost.
Jane Badger has been a friend of mine for around a decade. We bonded over a shared love of horses and pony books and after years of research, I was delighted when her first book, Heroines on Horseback, was published … Continue reading
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Why quitting NaNoWriMo doesn’t mean you’ll never be a writer
It’s November and everyone who writes or wants to write knows that November is NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) time. As recent data showed that being an author is the preferred career choice for 60% of the population. I imagine … Continue reading
Sunday words
Personally, I like a nice adverb every so often but I take Mr King’s point.
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Recent links I’ve loved
This piece in The Telegraph about Joanne Harris’ thoughts on the barriers between writers and authors. The Medium on why Twitter is dying. Sad but true I fear. Certainly these days, I look at Twitter and wonder where the fun … Continue reading
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Shelf notes – City of Strangers by Louise Millar*
This Euro-thriller by Louise Millar – apparently a new direction from a writer who I hadn’t previously encountered – is quite a difficult book to review. On the one hand it kept me reading while my bathwater went cold and … Continue reading
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